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| Thread ID: 62626 | 2005-10-14 04:27:00 | An English question | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 396005 | 2005-10-16 01:40:00 | Maybe it's to save ink, the same way as you said that telephone directories don't use full stops :) Or, maybe it's a case of "don't believe everything you read in the papers". Proof reading in newspapers seems a thing of the past, all part of the 'lean, mean' streamlining thing. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 396006 | 2005-10-16 02:21:00 | ... Proof reading in newspapers seems a thing of the past, all part of the 'lean, mean' streamlining thing. Proofreading was done independently because it has "always" been kniown that you can't proofread your own work. Now the reliance seems to be on Bill's products with "spellcheck". Some of NZ's best poets were proofreaders in newspapers (when they weren't being posties). Even poets need to eat, sometimes. So we can blame the decline in poetry on the international owners of NZ's newspapers. But the dogs seem to have been decapitalized by "style books". It's not a random error. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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